The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-09-29
AWFUL ANARCHISTS.
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION IN
THE CAMP.
An Incendiary Circular Issued By An
archists IN Behalf of Their Condemned
Brethren.

CoLUMBrs, O., Sept. Io.-The fol-
lowing circular, which is dated New
York and published both in German
and English, was distributed very
quietly to-day by the Anarchists, call
ing on the workingmen to prevent the
hanging of the condemned Anarchists
at Chicago:
To the Workingmen of the United
States and North America You have
heard the Supreme Courts decision in
the Chicago Anarchists trial. 1t strikes
like thunderbolt in the heart of every
free man.
The judges who have affirmed the
sentences stand on a level with the
notorious police bandit, Captain Bon
field, with the barbarous prosecutor,
Ebersold, with the monumental per-
jurer, Setback, with the corrupt Jury,
with the tiger of the bar, Grinnell,
anG with the scoundrel of all scoun-
drels, Gray, the manager of the great
est judiciary" crime of our times.
Our comrades, Spies, Parsons, M.
Schwab, Fielden, Lingg, Fischer and
Engel, are to expire on the gallows,
while Neebe must be doomed to death
in a dungeon. And yet no man has
the hardihood to claim that any of
these eight martyrs threw the famous
bomb on May q, 1886.
From legal point of view not
shadow of evidence was furnished that
any one of our eight prosecuted COM
rades were directly or indirectly par
ticipants in the affair. Why, then,
were>these champions of free speech
condemned? Because they exercised
the rights guaranteed to all men by
the constitution of this country.
Though the trial occupied nearly two
months and peuured witnesses came
trooping into the court IN droves, it
was impossible to lay any other crime
at their doors.
American workersl will you suffer
this outrage to be flung in your face?
Will you remain silent and allow that
so-called justice shall be defled in SO
bloody a manner-a dastardly deed,
alleged to be sanctioned by the will OF
the people?
1t must never be! Arise in your
imposing might and let your righteous
wrath fall in an unmistakable protest
upon the heads of those interpreters of
the law who have baseiy betrayed their
trust. The aims and purposes of An
archism have been blackguarded and
vilifed by the fiends of humanity who
feast upon your servitude. You will
know how to guard against such SLAM
der and assert your manhood.
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The beasts of capital want blood.
Their hirelings have shown themselves
ready to seize the best and noblest
from the ranks of the people, and rem
der them up to their senseless rage!
Workmen! will you remain quiet
while the strivings of your people,
identical with the hottest yearnings of
mankind, are sacrificed and trampled
under foot in the person of your COM
rades?
You know what IS your duty. These
condemned men are suffering because
they loved mankind better than them
selves; because they wrote and preached
to you and for you the gospel of the
future.
Now, you must demonstrate your
solidarity-the strength of your organ
! ization.
Gather together, summon our COM
rades from every side, and proclaim
our opinions in such a way that no
doubt can remain of their character.
The workingmen OF America must
show that their sense of justice and
their hatred of tyranny in this shame
less form has not been destroyed.
If you wish to do SO you can pre-
vent the consummation Of November
II, OF this horrible deed to which the
deeds of Cannibals are as nothing.
We demand that every man does his
duty, and that you say to this rabble
of thieves and murderers which rule
you, "Thus far and no further
Indignation meetings must be called
and held as quickly as possible.
Above all, it is necessary that the
Interpreters of the constitution al
Washington be spurred to pass upon
this judicial murder proposed a,
Chicago.
The judgment of blood is not yet
executed. Let every man do his duty
and il never will be.
Long live the solidarity! Down
with barbarism.